Book Details

ISBN 139781782162841

Paperback614 pages

Book Description

To develop an intranet portal for an Enterprise, Liferay is the only open-source portal development platform that has a high scale graph for the developer to extend any component. It provides high end integration with other applications. By using this book, both beginners and more experienced users will be able to create an intranet portal easily.

This book will be your pocket reference to Liferay. It will explain to you the new features of Liferay, including Liferay Sync and the Recycle Bin. It will help you to integrate with other key applications such as LDAP, SSO, and Alfresco 4.x and above. You will be introduced to documents, web content, and image management. You will move onto Liferay Sync's new tool to synchronize documents and media files to the local system. You’ll discover the Market Place, the newest feature of Liferay. Liferay Social Office and its integrations are also thoroughly explained.

This book is packed with practical examples that will help you to develop an intranet portal quickly and easily.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introducing Liferay for Your Intranet

Liferay Portal makes life easy

Introducing Palm Tree Publications

Introducing Liferay Portal's architecture and framework

Service-oriented architecture

Summary

Chapter 2: Setting Up a Home Page and Navigation Structure for the Intranet

Experiencing the portal

Building the Palm Tree Publications site

Setting up portal pages

Customizing portlets

Navigating the structure of an intranet site

Bringing pages together in action

Sharing portlets within a portal page

Configuring Control Panel

Summary

Chapter 3: Bringing in Users

Enterprise, departments, and locations

Organizations

User groups

Users

Sites

Authentications

Roles

Authorization

Configuration of portal navigation

Summary

Chapter 4: Forums, Categorization, and Asset Publishing

Message Boards

Customizing Message Boards

Categorization and tags

Asset Publisher

Summary

Chapter 5: Understanding Wikis, Dynamic Data Lists, and Polls

Understanding Wikis

Converting documents with OpenOffice

Dynamic Data List

Understanding Polls

Summary

Chapter 6: Blogs, WYSIWYG Editors, and Social Networking

Exploring WYSIWYG editors

Understanding RSS

Exploring blogs

Exploring Social Networking

Summary

Chapter 7: Understanding Sites

Site

Advanced site settings

Summary

Chapter 8: Document and Media Management

Documents and Media

Liferay Sync

Liferay integration with Alfresco

Summary

Chapter 9: Web Content Management

Web Content

Summary

Chapter 10: Marketplace, Social Office, and Audience Targeting

Marketplace

Liferay Social Office

Targeting content to audiences

Search

Summary

Chapter 11: Server Administration

Liferay server administrator

Portal Instances

Custom Fields

Performance tuning

Content Delivery Network

Liferay Connected Services

Liferay clustering

Liferay 7 updates

Summary

What You Will Learn

Be introduced to the all new features of Liferay 6.2

Understand the different controls/actions to make the portal work for an Enterprise

Manage users, organizations, sites, user groups, and roles and also set up portal permissions

Set up a forum and get detailed descriptions of categorization, tagging, and Asset Publisher

Enable Wiki to share knowledge among users and create new dynamic data list and poll portlets

Implement web content management with a different approach in the portal

Employ community tools such as invitations, bookmarks, page comments, and page ratings

Manage Liferay’s document and media portlet

Authors

Navin Agarwal

Navin Agarwal has been working extensively with Liferay for more than 5 years. This includes work on Java and J2EE technologies. He has executed projects using Liferay in various domains (including retail, insurance, networking, and medical), providing solutions for collaboration, document management, and web content management systems. He also has extensive experience in integrating Liferay with Alfresco and various third-party tools.

He started his career as an intern in portal technology with Sun Microsystems, India. Currently, he is working for IEEE as a senior programmer analyst. He is also an expert in Liferay integration with Ad Server OpenX, different search engines, enterprise content (including video, audio, images, documents, and web content), and other technologies such as Activiti, BPM Intalio, business intelligence, LDAP, and SSO.

Besides development and consulting, he has also delivered training programs on Liferay and Alfresco. He has experience in various software development life cycle (SDLC) models and different technologies, including MongoDB and Pentaho BI, and has worked with numerous frameworks, including Spring, Struts, Hibernate, Apache PDFBox, and ICEfaces.

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